. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ree trade treaty is almost side by side with a law wholljprohibiting usury ; a crusade and a search for the North-westPassage jostle against each other. The Yorkist claims of in-def<asible right do not cease to be formidable till 1505; yet in] the Statute of Treasons seems a precocious expression ofseventeenth-century theories of popular sovereignty. The medi-eval is constantly confronted with the mo
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ree trade treaty is almost side by side with a law wholljprohibiting usury ; a crusade and a search for the North-westPassage jostle against each other. The Yorkist claims of in-def<asible right do not cease to be formidable till 1505; yet in] the Statute of Treasons seems a precocious expression ofseventeenth-century theories of popular sovereignty. The medi-eval is constantly confronted with the modern. The kings owni-liariHter seems to reflect now the one, now the <.)ther favour to churchmen and his religit)us foundations, a certainreserve and aloofness in his lieariug, a habit of suspicion, a justbut great- self-coutidiuec ; even liis apjiearance, reverend andlike a ehiu-ehman, all these remind us of medieval , again, he was a- man of business, like Henry II. ; he luen and used them wvW, as Edward I. did ; he was as Iuir-spoken as Kdward ITT. ; his chapel at Westminster, one of thestateliest and daintiest monuments in Europe, is typically. IIF,NI:V \ , WESTJlIXSTKl: Al;l!EY. TieOpening 604 THE BEGIXNINGS IF ^r(lDERN EXCLAXn. 11485 medieval. Dot liis aversion to war, his punishing by lines ratlierthan liy hloodslied, his systeui of espionage, his sense of theiinpoitanee of finance, his hberal exjienditure on objects thatmade a good show, the concentration of the wliole State in liishands, are characteristics of a Frederick the Great or a CzarPeter. So, too, aiv his skiUul and intricate ibjiloniacv, liis carefor social legislation. Ins ? paring of the privilege of was about liim a ix-rtain breadth and tolerance which wasIar from insular; and was, no doubt. ]iartlv learnt in the lite ofan exile and a refugee. There are some anecdotes which seemto show that he was not .so immovable and uncongenial a man asis oft
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